Recent statements by Belarusian officials have confirmed that the country’s citizens should not expect a more liberal visa regime with Europe in the foreseeable future. Belarus’s decision to introduce a conditional visa-free regime for nationals of eighty countries, many of them European, does not mean Europe has to reciprocate.
Georgia and Ukraine, Belarus’s fellow inmates in the Soviet camp, will soon join Moldova in the group of countries which enjoy visa-free travel to the Schengen zone. Meanwhile, Belarusians are subject to the strictest Schengen visa regime amongst all Eastern European nations.
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Source: Belarus Digest
